Good morning one and all. Yes, another busy week here on PlayStation Blog. In case you missed any of the announcements, here’s your regular weekly catch-up digest.
Highlights this week included a look at the two special editions for The Last of Us and news of a forthcoming demo for Naughty Dog’s latest. We launched a massive Final Fantasy sale on PlayStation Store and added more deals to our January sale, including big savings on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Max Payne 3. We also heard from the creator of classic RPG Demon’s Souls, the team behind quirky platformer The Cave and the writer of impending blockbuster BioShock Infinite.
Please, enjoy your weekend – we’ll see you back here next week for news on your February PlayStation Plus content, status updates from the Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway teams, and word on a handful of other big titles for both PS3 and PS Vita.
- Video Store update, 21st January 2013 – All this week’s Video Store releases.
- Community update: Grow your PSN friend list – Your weekly roundup of what’s happening in the Official PlayStation Community.
- Huge Final Fantasy sale starts on PlayStation Store this week – Great discounts on a range of Final Fantasy titles
- Rods at the ready – Let’s Fish! Hooked On release date confirmed – PS Vita’s first full-scale fishing game is on its way
- Sack it to Me: Garfield arrives in LittleBigPlanet – Brand new costumes and stickers for Sackboy.
- Demon’s Souls’ creator looks back at the making of an RPG classic – Find out more about From’s game, which is now available as a digital download on PlayStation Store.
- PlayStation Mobile spotlight: Gun Commando – Try this classic “old-school, new-cool” first person shooter.
- DUST 514′s open beta is now live – Experience a merging of communities from two different game genres in Dust 514′s trial run.
- PlayStation Home: Drey goes Noir – Check out this week’s Home update.
- Start exploring The Cave on PSN from tomorrow – Puzzle your way through a Victorian mansion, a museum from the far future, a desert island, and much more…
- The Last of Us: Joel Edition and Ellie Edition announced! – Pre-order your special edition of Ellie or Joel ahead of the game’s May release.
- PlayStation Store January Sale (update) – Check out the third round of additions to the January Sale
- Doodle God launches on PS Vita today – Mix and match different combinations of fire, earth, water and air to create an entire civilization!
- Zombie Driver HD crashes into PSN today – Undead automobile mayhem on PlayStation 3
- Six weeks of free PlayStation Mobile gaming (update) – This week’s complimentary title is rhythm puzzler Beats Slider
- ‘Heads-up’ PlayStation Store update, 23rd January 2013 – This week’s new game content in full
- VidZone update: Let the Chart Zone set you free – This week we’re featuring our new Chart Zone – an ever changing list of content to help you explore the very best of what VidZone has to offer.
- The Last of Us demo included with God of War: Ascension – Find out how you can get an early glimpse at Naughty Dog’s latest
- Access episode 66: Ni No Kuni! Tomb Raider! Dust 514! – Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch stars as Game of the Week in Access TV episode 66, plus Tomb Raider, Dust 514 beta news and more.
- Writing BioShock Infinite – Irrational Games tries to answer a tough question: “How do you write for a BioShock game?”
- Weekend Debate: What have videogames taught you? – What transferable skills have video games taught you? Let usk now!
- The Weekend Playlist, 26th January 2013 – Our guest this week is Pawel Lekki from EXOR Studios, creator of Zombie Driver HD.
- Weekend Essentials – Get stuck into a host of gaming treats this weekend with our pick of the latest releases on PS3 and PS Vita.
- Obsession Confessions: Killzone Trilogy – Find out what the PlayStation Community’s top moments are from Guerrilla’s thrill-a-minute shooter series.
- PS Vita system software update (ver. 2.05) – Download this version of the system software for general bug fixes.
- Preview: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Find out how we get on with LEVEL-5 and Studio Ghibli’s adventure of a lifetime.
- Preview: Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable – We get our hands on Namco’s bug-busting intergalactic action adventure on PS Vita.
- The PS3 games in 2013 to watch out for
- FIFA 13 tips: buy the ultimate team for career mode that costs less than £50 million
- God Of War: Ascension trailer breakdown
- Ni no Kuni PS3 tips: how to win battles, evolve familiars and complete bounties
- Dunwall’s biggest monster – how Rich Wordsworth became The Devil in Dishonored
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 11:15 am by CookieMonsterES
Hi there, Fred!
I’d like to report that there’s a bunch of missing content for Street Fighter x Tekken, dozen of items that are showing as not available and can’t be downloaded. Could we have it fixed? Thanks.
Plus news today, cool
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 11:42 am by GiftoftheGods
Can you tell me why downloading titles seem to want to rob me of so much more money than buying the retail copy. I have seen games priced at £60 but i can go online and get them for £25 or less sometimes. I know its all a convenience thing but why should convenience cost me £20-£35 more. please sort out your ridiculous store prices for retail games.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 12:55 pm by AshishSahoo
“Hey Fred,
Don’t want to bug you but I cant understand the absence of orgarhythm and sumioni from Indian store. We don’t have a censor board, so Eu ratings (pegi) are followed here. So I cant possibly think of a reason for this. So I hope you can give a response explaining this. Will this happen in the future too?
Cheers.”
Regarding my previous post, I checked the one you referred to and India falls in english speaking regions, so no localisation needed. I am a bit worried since even Dokuro may miss Indian store, which would suck. On that, who is publishing Dokuro in Eu?
Also, Corpse Party was released here but not the sequel, should I bug Xseed regarding this and other published games missing from indian store?
Please reply, hoping I am not bugging you.
Cheers
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 3:05 pm by Project2insanity
@Dermado & monoliet; Guys, give him a break. Everyone is entitled to a day off. I’d be cracking skulls if people demanded I worked every day.
Also, bear in mind the blog isn’t a Q&A session. The beauty of having a community is most knowledge can be shared between each other and if an answer really is important, we should be prepared to do a little reading. There’s no way one person alone can respond to everything.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 3:38 pm by Dermado
Insanity, Im aware you are a troll (remember you from the Singstar thread -.-) but you seem to be purposefully misreading what I put.
To make it even more blunt, if Fred, Jawad or anyone else is choosing to respond to less than 20% of the comments, either by choice (not wanting to answer questions) , by being busy, or ignoring issues for weeks then replying to the same issue 4 times on one page something is clearly wrong.
Given, that they could hire someone at minimum wage (or an apprenticeship? or internship?) and make their own job easier it makes no sense not to do so.
But given how bad the customer service is (email them, a robot will tell you to phone the customer service number, or phone them and be told you are wrong) anyway and how little information we get (or how blunt it is, the guy asking about the COD map card thing thats false advertising? yeah he should get a full refund and the item should be pulled from the shelves o_O) especially compared to America.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 3:43 pm by Dermado
Bearing in mind, that if the feedback was better less people would have jumped ship or canceled PS+ due to Singstar Malware. More than enough to pay for the hypothetical blog replierer.
Not only this but they stonewall us too much, I mean Singstars still there, people still want CSGO , The store is still crap. Now I understand some stuff is legal, but the majority of people wont look back more than a page to find what they want.
anyway, no one is asking him to work 24/7, he can delegate, or hire say 3 people to work peek hours, also we arent making unfair demands, just suggestions and feedback. I mean they will be completely ignored and no doubt blacklist us from winning weekend debates, but Id rather have the customer service as good as America (or combine the store and blogs o_O…)
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 5:07 pm by supersmith2500
I wonder who won the Weekend Debate. Also, there is something with my avatar being displayed on the blog.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 6:43 pm by Project2insanity
@Dermado; Wow, I decided to avoid being sarcastic towards yourself because I’ve found this week that it can be taken for far worse than intended yet you brand me a troll!?
I didn’t misread your statement one single bit. Why don’t you try reading mine again so you can realise I wasn’t addressing you alone ie I generalised a little?
I just think it’s an absolutely ridiculous idea. Do you really think Fred does the hiring? Do you really think answering constantly repeated questions on a blog justifies a wage? ‘The majority of people wont look back more than a page to find what they want’? So you expect to be waited on hand and foot!?
If you truly recall the Singstar thread, you should recall I was opposing people blowing it way out of proportion. Too many comments were disgusting in tone. But go ahead, brand me a troll. One day you may learn I justify my points and then you’ll understand you are wrong to call me that.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 7:07 pm by Dermado
Project, to be blunt its not just the post here or the one on Singstar, many little annoynaces over and around the blog, iirc mainly jumping in and attacking people when they ask for reasonable treatment from the blog or phone team. Its annoying to log in via the PS3 and has not been aimed at me before but its not just those 2 instances o_O. (though in this one alone? ok tbf I was a tad quick with the T-bomb -.-)
Do you think Fred cant say he needs help? That he thinks it would be a good idea and let him do his actual job as opposed to “extra duties”. Indeed it does, work experience, somewhat similar to a call centre. Again can be an intern or apprentice and a reference -.-
And again, given that I read the majority of the pages on topics that interest me in my case? no, but I dislike seeing large numbers of legitimate questions and concerns ignored and then three replies about say an avatar being missing.
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Posted on 28 January, 2013 at 7:33 pm by Project2insanity
@Dermado; I certainly don’t ‘attack’ anybody. I take issue with people being unreasonable and demanding responses (don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not saying complaints are unreasonable). I very rarely criticise an opinion, only the manner in which it’s presented. Or do you believe nobody does go over the top?
As for your idea, had you not responded the way you had to my very reasonably-worded comment, I wouldn’t have called it ridiculous. If it gives food for thought, what makes you think if someone is brought onboard, that essentially ‘no comment’ won’t be the response for the concerns that aren’t answered as it is?
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Posted on 29 January, 2013 at 3:45 am by JayManGamer
I just realised the price on Final Fantasy VII was not correct before, and I bought it… Is there any way I can get money back? Because that is just ridiculous. I paid $14.45 instead of $7.35 :\
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